From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (695th day):
When in March 2022 during multiple air-raids each day and night we were spending many hours on the floor of our apartment corridor, using it as a bomb shelter, we were reading in media that this war would last only a few days/weeks. In the West experts were saying that Ukraine would hold invasion only for days, in ruzzia they were bragging it would be just a matter of hours. In Ukraine some optimists were saying that we just need to hold 2-3 weeks and ruzzia will run out of missiles. Neither of them were right.
Almost two years later, we have liberated 50% of territory that ruzzians had taken over in the initial push during first months of big invasion. But we still have ways to go to restoring our boarders. Ruzzians have dug in in the occupied territories and without aviation support Ukraine was not able to make progress we were hoping for in 2023.
From expectations of the war lasting 2-3 weeks, we are now to another extreme. More and more we are reading experts’ predictions of at least 2 more years of war, some are being even more pessimistic and saying 5-10 years.
If we trusted only experts we would have despaired back at the beginning of the war. But our faith is in God and we trust that He would give us Victory in a way experts can’t predict!
Interestingly, while some people in the States talk about being tired of “funding losing battles,” Europe is finally beginning to understand that the end of the war in Ukraine on putin’s terms (meaning, Ukraine getting taken over by ruzzia) would mean the beginning of ruzzian invasion into Europe. More and more European leaders are voicing the worst-case scenarios to their nations, giving estimations of how many years ruzzian army would need to recover before invading Europe, if they succeed in Ukraine. The best way to fight the great evil threatening everyone is to support Ukraine’s fight!
Voice of Ukraine 